One savage who had picked up a brand from one of the little fires dropped some of the stuff on it, and it crackled merrily.

The fire was crackling cheerily when he went to the lake for water.

These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and crackled noisily.

" Hesitatingly my uncle produced a packet that crackled pleasantly.

She first rebuilt the fire, and when it was crackling cheerfully she prepared a bath and brought an armful of clothing which she laid out for inspection over the back of a sofa.

He crackled delicately.

Thousands of the birds alighted on the trees, the branches of which snapped and crackled fearfully under the superincumbent load; those of our party who were armed, continued to fire and load as fast as they possibly could.

Or do they, said a Shade of prose, With many a pimple's ghost on nose, Th' eccentric author still admire, Who wanting that same genius' fire, Diving in cellars underground, In pipe the spark ethereal found: Which, fann'd by many a ribbald joke, From brother tipplers puff'd in smoke, Such blaze diffused with crackling loud, As blinded all the staring croud?

Out over the snow that crackled sharply in the clear, crisp air; out where the stars seemed strangely close, the moon strangely brightand where across the heavens waved the luminous, ghostly banners of the Northern Lights.

They leaped and crackled angrily and licked the roof with their hot, thirsty tongues, and he turned away his head.

Scarce had we driven the foe Forth from the keep, and given it to the flames, That now rose crackling upwards to the skies, When from the blaze rush'd Diethelm, Gessler's page, Exclaiming, "Lady Bertha will be burnt!" FÜRST.

The match he lit crackled explosively, and he started at the unexpected sound as one whose nerves were on edge.

The birch crackled more and more faintly in the fire and sounds died away.

Phosphoric sparks hissed and crackled forth, and coalesced into a blue lambent flame, which concentrated itself upon a depicted figure, whose precise attitude the ratcatcher assumed as he dropped upon his knees.

It was stuck full of bits of crackling holly and dripped sweet-smelling sauce in every direction.

But beneath her foot something rustled and crackled lightly.

" Mrs. Bittacy sat forward in her chair so that her silk flounces crackled louder than the newspaper.

Finishing luncheon they went out over the common that stretched from the very door, down the hill-side of short, sun-baked grass, passing between masses of scorched broom, whose bursting pods crackled perpetually in the sunshine, till they came to the green shade of forest trees and the gleam of a running stream.